About the Artist

Yazmine Akamine is a Venezuelan/Japanese-American movement artist originally from northern Kentucky. Most recently a company apprentice for Azara Ballet, a contemporary ballet company, based in Sarasota, Florida. She completed Judith Sánchez Ruiz’s Professional Contemporary Dance Certification Program in Berlin, Germany Fall 2025. After receiving a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts in Contemporary Dance from the Boston Conservatory at Berklee in May 2025. Most notably performed works by Jennifer Archibald, Norbert De La Cruz, and Andrea Miller. Additional professional performance experience includes Choreography Project Providence, Newport Contemporary Dance Festival, and Jo-Me Dance Theater.
Additionally, she is a 200-hour certified yoga teacher who brings a somatic approach to dance and performance. Passionate about sharing the joy of movement and expression through teaching and choreography, using improvisation, as a method to innovate authentic and powerful work. She is currently experimenting with multidisciplinary mediums of expression, fashion, literature, film, and visual art to create multi-dimensional experiences and collaboration in her creative process.